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A biografia definitiva do mestre Leonardo da Vinci, assinada pelo autor dos best-sellers Steve Jobs: A biografia e Einstein: sua vida, seu universo
Com base em milhares de páginas dos impressionantes cadernos que Leonardo manteve ao longo de boa parte da vida e nas mais recentes descobertas sobre sua obra e sua trajetória, Walter Isaacson, biógrafo de Einstein e Steve Jobs, tece uma narrativa que conecta arte e ciência, revelando faces inéditas da história de Leonardo. Desfazendo-se da aura de super-humano muitas vezes atribuída ao artista, Isaacson mostra que a genialidade de Leonardo estava fundamentada em características bastante palpáveis, como a curiosidade, uma enorme capacidade de observação e uma imaginação tão fértil que flertava com a fantasia.
Leonardo criou duas das mais famosas obras de arte de todos os tempos, A Última Ceia e Mona Lisa, mas se considerava apenas um homem da ciência e da tecnologia — curiosamente, uma de suas maiores ambições era ser reconhecido como engenheiro militar. Com uma paixão que às vezes se tornava obsessiva, ele elaborou estudos inovadores de anatomia, fósseis, o voo dos pássaros, o coração, máquinas voadoras, botânica, geologia, hidráulica, armamentos e fortificações. A habilidade para entrelaçar humanidades e ciência, tornada icônica com o desenho do Homem vitruviano, fez dele o gênio mais criativo da história.
Filho ilegítimo, à margem da educação formal, gay, vegetariano, canhoto, distraído e, por vezes, herético, o Leonardo desenhado nesta biografia é uma pessoa real, extraordinária pela pluralidade de interesses e pelo prazer que tinha em combiná-los. Um livro indispensável não só pelo caráter único de representar integralmente o artista Leonardo, mas como um retrato da capacidade humana de inovar, da importância de não apenas assimilar conhecimento, mas ter a disposição para questioná-lo, ser imaginativo e, como vários desajustados e rebeldes de todas as eras, pensar diferente.
Biógrafo de Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs e Leonardo da Vinci narra a trajetória de Jennifer Doudna, cientista premiada com o Nobel de Química por suas descobertas sobre edição de DNA
Quando Jennifer Doudna ainda cursava a sexta série, encontrou em sua cama um exemplar de A dupla hélice, de James Watson, deixado por seu pai. Avançando pelas páginas, Doudna ficou fascinada com os bastidores da competição científica pela descoberta dos tijolinhos que constroem a vida.
Motivada pela paixão de entender o funcionamento da natureza e por transformar descobertas em invenções práticas, Doudna ajudaria a realizar aquilo que o próprio James Watson, um dos descobridores da estrutura do DNA, classificara como o próximo avanço científico mais importante da biologia. Observando o modo com que há bilhões de anos as bactérias combatem os vírus, ela e seus parceiros de pesquisa descobriram algo capaz de transformar a vida humana: uma ferramenta de manuseio simples capaz de editar a estrutura do DNA. O CRISPR, como foi batizada, abriu um novo mundo de milagres da medicina e levantou delicadas questões éticas.
Se a última metade do século passado foi uma era digital, baseada no microchip, no computador e na internet, estamos agora no limiar de uma revolução da vida e da ciência: as crianças que estudam programação digital se juntarão às que estudam o código da vida. O uso do CRISPR e a corrida para o desenvolvimento de vacinas contra a Covid-19 estão acelerando a transição para essa nova era de inovações biológicas.
Devemos usar esses novos poderes para hackear a evolução e nos tornarmos menos suscetíveis a infecções virais? Para prevenir a depressão? Devemos permitir que o poder aquisitivo dê aos pais a chance de modificar características como a altura, a estrutura muscular ou o QI de seus filhos?
Tendo capitaneado as importantes descobertas que levaram ao CRISPR, Doudna assumiu papel de destaque na discussão das questões morais que envolvem a edição do genoma humano e, com sua parceira de pesquisa Emmanuelle Charpentier, ganhou o Prêmio Nobel de Química em 2020. Sua trajetória é uma emocionante história de detetive que envolve as mais complexas maravilhas da natureza, indo das origens da vida ao futuro da nossa espécie.
Em obra que é referência no segmento das biografias, autor conta a história da Revolução Digital.
É curioso que a história dos computadores e da internet, ferramentas tão presentes em nosso dia a dia, seja tão pouco conhecida pela maioria das pessoas. E talvez mais interessante ainda seja o fato de, diferentemente de outras tecnologias revolucionárias a sua época, como o telefone e a lâmpada, essas invenções que mudaram a forma como vivemos serem em grande parte fruto de trabalho colaborativo.
Desde Ada Lovelace, a filha de Lord Byron que no fim do século XIX foi pioneira da programação, passando por Vannevar Bush e Alan Turing, até chegar a gênios contemporâneos, como Bill Gates e Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson explora em Os inovadores as personalidades fascinantes que contribuíram para a atual Revolução Digital e suas conquistas mais significativas. Quais foram os talentos que permitiram aos inventores e empreendedores transformar suas ideias visionárias em realidades revolucionárias? O que fez com que eles concretizassem tais avanços criativos? Por que alguns foram bem-sucedidos e outros falharam?
Os inovadores é uma saga magistral sobre como a colaboração entre criadores engenhosos estava destinada a compor a história da Revolução Digital — e também um guia indispensável sobre como a inovação de fato acontece. Aclamado pela crítica, o livro traça um panorama lúcido sobre como os principais responsáveis por essa revolução tecnológica não apenas colocaram suas ideias em prática, como também dominaram a arte do trabalho em equipe para potencializar ainda mais sua criatividade.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.
In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
Upon release, Invent and Wander will be available on Kindle Unlimited.
In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.
In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas—you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.
Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers readers a master class in business values, strategy, and execution:
- The importance of a Day 1 mindset
- Why "it's all about the long term"
- What it really means to be customer obsessed
- How to start new businesses and create significant organic growth in an already successful company
- Why culture is an imperative
- How a willingness to fail is closely connected to innovation
- What the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us
Each insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges—and more importantly, tomorrow's—and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time.
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos is co-published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, and Harvard Business Review Press.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.
These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.
He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.
In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators is “a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age” (The New York Times).
El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía.
Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra, Walter Isaacson teje una narración que conecta el arte de Da Vinci con sus investigaciones científicas, y nos muestra cómo el genio del hombre más visionario de la historia nació de habilidades que todos poseemos y podemos estimular, tales como la curiosidad incansable, la observación cuidadosa y la imaginación juguetona. Su creatividad, como la de todo gran innovador, resultó de la intersección entre la tecnología y las humanidades. Despellejó y estudió el rostro de numerosos cadáveres, dibujó los músculos que configuran el movimiento de los labios y pintó la sonrisa más enigmática de la historia, la de la Mona Lisa. Exploró las leyes de la óptica, demostró como la luz incidía en la córnea y logró producir esa ilusión de profundidad en la Última cena.
La habilidad de Leonardo da Vinci para combinar arte y ciencia -esplendorosamente representada en el Hombre de Vitruvio- continúa siendo la regla de oro de la innovación. La apasionante vida de este gran hombre debe recordarnos la importancia de inculcar el conocimiento, pero sobre todo la voluntad contagiosa de cuestionarlo: ser imaginativos y pensar de manera diferente.
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